Two types of character have inhabited my mind over the last few days. You could imagine either of them conscripted into the army in the early days of the 1914-18 war in Europe. They are both young men, but they neither have to be young or male to inhabit the kind of fictional characterization I [...]
There is still more to be said about character. There is always more to be said about it. In the last couple of posts we have looked briefly at some aspects of character and how these are brought about. We touched on caricature and on how some figures in a narrative are merely there to [...]
1. Why do you blog?
I initially started my reading blog as a means of keeping track of the books I had read. It was simply an online extension of something I’d been doing in a notebook since 1991.
But last summer I decided to experiment a little, and started writing other book-related posts, not just reviews. [...]
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